The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 1

“By carrying me up to the earth,” answered Paul; and the griffin agreed, but first went to get some food to eat on the way, as it was a long journey.

Who acts: Paul, griffin · What happens: carry up, answer, agree, go, get, eat · To what, where: Paul, earth, food, way, long journey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, griffin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 carrying	punct
2	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 carrying	mark
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 answered	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 carrying	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 carrying	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 carrying	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 carrying	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 agreed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 agreed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 griffin	det
16	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 agreed	nsubj
17	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 went	advmod
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 agreed	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 went	xcomp
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 food	det
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 eat	mark
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 food	acl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 way	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 journey	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 journey	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 journey	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 journey	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 journey	det
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 journey	amod
37	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eat	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry up in a quote	gerund		Paul	the earth		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to earth=Destination
2	answer speech: assert	past	Paul				tree rules
3	agree speech: agree	past	the griffin				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	the griffin not said here			first property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	to-infinitive	the griffin not said here	some food			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
6	eat	to-infinitive	the griffin not said here	some food not said here	the way		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	griffin	a long journey			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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